The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) was a professional minor league??that played from 1946 to 2009.??For most of its existence the CBA was the second tier of men's professional basketball in the U.S. right below the National Basketball Association (NBA) and served as that league's development circuit until the formation of the NBA D-league (Now the NBA Gatorade League) in 2001. The CBA folded in 2009.
